On 2008/01/05 21:11 (GMT+0530) Shibu Basheer apparently typed:

> On Jan 5, 2008 9:09 PM, Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> On 2008/01/05 20:50 (GMT+0530) Shibu Basheer apparently typed:

>> > I have a new installation of Open Suse.  I find it to randomly shuts
>> > down, just like someone accidently presses the power button, or issue
>> > the shutodown command.   There are no prompts, messages or anything,
>> > just starts shutting down closing everything that I've been doing.

>> > Any ideas on how to isolate this problem?  BTW, this has happened on
>> > another computer, but AMD CPUs, only common component was the memory,
>> > and a TV card.

>> One possibility is an erroneous indication of CPU overheat. If you know how
>> and your BIOS provides the means to do so, you can underclock your system by
>> about 25% to see if the problem stops. If it does, you'll have to
>> troubleshoot the cause of the erroneous indication. IIRC, it is caused by two
>> daemons both trying to monitor CPU temp at the same time.

>> Another possibility is TV card related. TV cards seem to demand a lot of
>> power, maybe more than your power supply can reliably provide. You can
>> temporarily remove the card to see if this is your problem.

> HI Felix, Thanks for you suggestions.  I've ruled both the problem,
> because the system is running quite stable in safe mode, and I have
> been running a long tv scan with tvtime.

Failsafe mode uses acpi=off on cmdline, which would probably disable the
ability to monitor CPU temperature or the ability to do anything as a result
of the CPU temperature state.

> So it looks like it is some kernel parameter, or something that is
> enabled during normal bootup?
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